Peter Nilsson
Author,
Educator's Notebook
United States
Peter Nilsson, editor of The Educator's Notebook and founder of ed-tech company Athena Lab,
has over 25 years of experience in education. Recently, he returned from a tenure as Head of
School at Jordan's King’s Academy, following various roles as a teacher and leader at Deerfield Academy in
Massachusetts. Also a musician, Peter has collaborated with diverse ensembles and theater
groups. He is the composer and lyricist for A Boarding School Musical, a one-act, Hamilton-style
musical, which is currently being adapted into Schooled The Musical. He serves on the advisory
boards for SXSWedu and the Center for Curriculum Redesign, which drive innovation in global
education, and he won a 2017 Wolfram Innovation Award from Wolfram Research for the digital
humanities course he designed for high school students, the first Wolfram Innovation Award given
to a high school teacher. He is the co-author with Maya Bialik of a book on AI and education.
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